The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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who buy the bulk OF goods.
-Speculators in stocks will find this
q good time to stand from under.
Illinois. it Is stated, has no debt
and $500, 600 in the State Treasury.
The New Year moves briskly along,
like the general business of the country.
All the world is listening for the
first gun that will tell Of Europe's war.
Salt River Valley, A. T., is receiv-
ing a large number Of settlers from the
East.
st. Paul has invested this year in
new buildings $9,658, 692. That looks
healthy.
The value OF new gold received at
the Denver, Col, Mint in 1885 was ST.
444, FOG.
If the Government would furnish
signals of financial storms we would all
be happy.
Montana is reported to be out Of
debt, and has $4,000 in the State
Treasury.
The debt of Pennsylvania is S17,.
25S, 9S2-a reduction IN four years OF
81, 966, 101.
An artesian well at st. Augustine,
Fla, throws up $1,000, 900 gallons Of
sulphur water daily.
The dog, according to a recent de-
cision given in a Cincinnati Court, is
not a domestic animal"
Reading r. r. Co.'s affairs are as
complicated as ever; their liabilities
last year increased S., 1854 804.
An Indian reservation IN North
Carolina is said to cover $4,000 acres,
on which reside 5000 Cherokees.
Don't keep the shutters up too long
taking stock" the country is wider
awake than usual this year OF 1887.
Lee Wlnnemucca, heir to the Piute
chleftainship, is in San Francisco to
consult ar oculist. He is totally blind.
The Mayor of Brockton, Mass, has
removed the whole Board of Health Of
that place for alleged extravaganza,
etc.
"A ship broker in New York, it is
stated, has a list of III English steam
vessels which the owners are anxious tc
sell.
Twelve million dollars put into new
buildings In Boston last year indicates q
tolerab'y vigorous growth Of the old
town.
-Toboggau slides without snow are
getting to be numerous. Snow fol
some of these is brought a long distance
by rail.
1t is said there are plenty Of Silver
Certificates, and yet lots Of merchants
complain because they cannot get hold
Of them.
About $50, 900 barrels of applet
were shipped for export from New York
last year. The trade is steadily in.
icreasing,
"A marsh near Cape May, n. J., is
being searched for Capt. Kidd's sup.
posed buried treasures by some people
Of that city.
The word sits" Is said not to c
at all in the King James translation of
the Bible and but three or four times in
Shakespeare.
"A large, full.grown seal was shot
in Staten Island Sound, off the Lehigh
Navigation Company's coal docks
Etizabethport, N. ].
California last year shipped east
$1,000 tons of grapes. II freights will
justify 1t, double that amount will
reach us another year.
"A "ghost bell" that rings itself is q
sen alton on the Thetis, lying at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. Application ha.
been made for a new bell for the vessel,
1t is said.
"A cOpyist in the Interior Depart.
ment offices is "the very counterpart
of Mis-. Grover Cleveland, it is stated,
and has on numerous occasions beer
mistaken for her.
"A farmer living neal Dayton, Ohio,
IS said not to have spoken a word te
his wife, nor she to him, during the
past rs years, owing to a quarrel they
had over a child at that time.
Alexander tombstone, of Langholm
Dumtrlesshire, lately deceased. was the
Oldest Free Mason in Great Britain.
Tie was 95 years old, and had belonged
to the craft for more than II years.
johnny, l have discovered that
you have taken more maple sugar than
l gave YOU" Eyes, grandma; Nv,
been making believe there was another
little boy spending the day with me. -
"A tunnel twelve miles long is to be
run in Nevada county, California, fol-
the purpose of draining certain mines
in that section. A company with ST..
DOC, 900 capital has been formed TO dc
the work.
An Illinois woman probably owes
her life to an Inceremonious tossing
into a %snowdrift, which she was given
recently, by a party of neighbora Her
clothing had caught fire and they took
this means of ~extinguishing the flames.
1t is noticeable, says local reports,
that many OF the inmates in the town
of Hampstead, l.. l., as well as many
persons who receive relief from the
town, are impoverished by the opium
habit.